Fleet Meeting Minutes

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Fleet meeting minutes November 2006

Minutes for the November, 2006 Catamaran Fleet Meeting

Tom Paoli called the meeting to order at 8:15 at the home of Sue Dudek on November 18, 2006.

Brock gave the treasurers report of $8514, which is in our checking account.

Tom reread Jim Disano’s email regarding Daniel Paoli’s request for financial support for the F 18 Nationals. Motion made and seconded to make a belated donation of $300 to him. Motion passed. After much discussion, Tom asked us to think about how we want to handle requests like this in the future and it will be discussed at the next meeting.

There was much discussion on what to do with the money in the treasury. Free regatta? Cheap regatta? Free regatta was voted on and did not pass. Have a skills seminar, BBQ, learn to sail? A motion was seconded and passed to use 6-23-06, the Summer Solstice as the date for whatever we plan to do. The following people volunteer to bring a recommendation back to the fleet: Dave Bryant, Karen Pauls, Bob Monaghan, Jan Wilson, and Dave Waugh.

Fleet dues were discussed and it was decided to keep them the same.

Brock will investigate donating money to CYSS earmarked for catamaran juniors and CYSS could keep the interest.

There was discussion on making registration for the Muddy free for 2007 for fleet members only.

Bob has pictures on the website for the F18’s.

A motion was made, seconded, and pass that Denny Taylor will set up a toolbox with a variety of tools and can spend $200. This toolbox will be kept at CSA.

The December meeting will be hosted by the Paoli’s, February meeting at Pat O’Donnell and March meetingaat Joe Lapp’s.

The sportsmanship and contribution award will be voted on by email. Tom will set this up.

The fleet has agreed that we will not use fleet email to send religious or political messages, but sailing related only.

Tom Paoli will investigate a shed to store our two lawnmowers.

Motion to adjourn made, seconded and passed.

Respectfully submitted

Shirley Allen

Fleet meeting minutes March 19, 2006

The meeting was called to order at 5:40 pm at the home of Tom & Mary Paoli.
Many of the open cat sailors had enjoyed their lake earlier, either racing
remote control sailboats or kayaking.

A race committee sign up sheet was passed around. The cats only have 5 dates
this year instead of 6. The Snipes picked up one date.

F 18 Nationals update: Jim Mencin's RV Co., Byerly (sp.) will provide RV's
for lease to the participants. We just have to make arrangements to get
them. Twenty-one skippers have said they will sail the Nationals and ten of
those have already paid.

We nominated and seconded and voted Mike Hill to be the sailor of the month
for his work on the F 18 event. As far as we know, he is the only candidate
for the Board of Directors election. We need to find out if there will still
be a vote.

Tom Paoli needs to put together a qualified skipper list. That is basically
everyone that is in the book.

Visitor's Day update: Jan Wilson is in charge of signing up skippers to give
rides. She passed around materials. Pat O'Donnell also talked about the
other jobs that need to be filled for that day and is looking for volunteers
for those positions also.

Beach Maintenance: Each year we get 3 tandems of sand at $300 a load or
$900. The Board decided that we should not disc for weeds over the summer as
it causes us to lose sand. We will try mowing the weeds. Our contract now
includes mowing the H-17 row. The state will mow the beach monthly. We can
still tie down on the beach, but those who do so will be required to do
there own mowing. Also, if you keep your trailer in the field next to the
road, you also need to mow around it. Tom would like us not to mow during
lunch, as it is annoying.

Treasurer's report: $3200 minus money already spent on the F18 regatta.
Brock passed out breakdown of expenses.

Beach wheels: The fleet owns them, not CSA and this works better. We spent
$250 on them this year to fit them with inner tubes so they shouldn't go
flat. All the beach wheels will be set up to accommodate all sizes of cats.
The holes are already drilled.

Shirley will call new people and invite them to the work party on April 8th
at 8:00 am. They should find Mike and Tom on the cat field. Jan Wilson will
work with each fleet during the year to make the sailors who are not
"regulars" welcome. Shirley will be the designated person in the fleet to do
that.

Dorin Cup: After discussion about the H 18's, we decided not to challenge
them this year. Rick Bernstein updates the plaque.

The Muddy is the weekend of 9-9 and the 420's are in with us again. Tom
encouraged us to travel to other events in order to get boats to come to
ours. It was decided to pick one and go as a group.

Creve Coeur Sailors: The BOD says they have to pay the day use fee. We
discussed calling the Hound and Hare a regatta so they or we would only be
responsible for the $.50 per day. Dave L. will discuss this with Jan later.

Cabin fleet needs help with the breakfast at the Leukemia Cup. We voted to
spend up to $75 and provide volunteers.

Tom wants to use an average score of all races and factor that in on the day
a skipper does RC duty. This has to be run past Jeanette.

Felicia would like to use the H 17 for the Championship regatta on July 29.

Spec boat: The use of Dave L's H-16 will be coordinated by Joe K. Joe can
either use the boat with new people himself or loan it to another skipper to
use. He can not qualify for a trophy using it. If anyone is interested the
cost of the boat is $1500 including the trailer.

If you would like to see any changes in the Commodore's Banquet, let Dave L.
know.

After April 10 flyers must use the new CSA logo on the website.

Respectfully,

Shirley Allen

Fleet meeting minutes February 18, 2006

The meeting was called to order at 8:15 at the home of Sue Dudek.

Dave Leimbach started with recent events at the Board of Directors meeting. Jan Wilson presented to the Board a 6-page proposal regarding increasing CSA membership. Also, a concern with the Board is a tightening of the belt on finances. Several issues will come up during the year regarding this. Mike Hill is up for re-election. We must nominate someone tonight and the fleet captain sends our nomination to Dan Claggert. It was nominated and seconded and voted that Mike Hill run for the Board again. Shirley Allen will organize the phone tree when the time comes to campaign for him. Mike will also address with Tom Pinkel about mowing the entire cat field.

Visitor’s Day. Pat is the chair. She is asking for volunteer to give rides for a half day, if you don’t want to spend the entire day. There will also be other jobs such as giving tours, dock help.

Jan Wilson is the media point of contact. Jan provided fleet members with an abbreviated 3-page version of her proposal. Thoughts are to invite the Creve Coeur sailors to sail/race with us and waive the fee.

Dave L. is rounding up committees for the F18’s

Trophies – Jan Wilson

Meals

Weigh in – Latham, Sue, Shirley

Sail Measurement 0- Mike

Registration – Amy, Pat

Centerpiece – Amy

Social – Tom Paoli

Race Committee - Felicia, Karen (3 days), Pat (3 Days), Sue (3 days), Jim Disano (5 days), Garen Miller (5 days)

Scoring – Mike Hill

Raffle tickets/prizes – Dave Waugh

Beach Captain – Dave Waugh

Fix up the beach – Joe Leonard and Tom Paoli

Dan Haile, commodore, will concentrate on recruiting new members. Mike H. suggested we award a prize for the summer series based on who brought in the most new people to sail.

Pat O’Donnell was voted sailor of the month.

Denny talked about fun events for cats. He suggested coordinating the Hare and Hound with dinner and “newbees”. Another suggestion was to sail on Wednesday with the Creve Coeur sailors at Creve Coeur and invite them to do a Hare and Hound, maybe on 6-17-06.

Tom Paoli will have the next meeting, but 3-18 is conflict with the cabin fleet meeting.

We brought up and decided to table “hybrid” boats. This is a boat that modifies itself during a series, such as an H 18 adding or removing its wings. The RULE IS you must keep your boat the same or it is two different boats during the series. This would be a H 18 with wings and the same boat without wings would be counted as two different boats and probably not qualify for the series.

Respectfully,

Shirley Allen

Secretary